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“Tell us about it,” urged Mr. Layton, exchanging a meaning glance with his wife, while the boys looked at each other with an unspoken question in their eyes.

“I don’t remember that he mentioned names,” went on the captain. “Simply said that they were interested in radio and that at his invitation they’d come to spend a few weeks in the mountains. He’s a Forest Ranger and uses radio a lot in his work, and I suppose that’s what got him in touch with the boys. They went there just for a lark, but while they were there a big fire broke out—one of the toughest fires to fight he’d ever seen. Well, Mr. Layton, he told me that those boys—none of them over sixteen and some scarcely that—behaved like veterans. They fought the fire with all their strength, were here, there and everywhere, and did as good work as any of the rangers who had been accustomed to fighting fires all their lives. And when they were finally trapped by the flames they made a raft, got out on a lake, and by rigging up some kind of radio contrivance, fought off some bears that tried to climb on the raft. Bentley got quite worked up while he talked to me about them. Couldn’t say enough in praise of them.”